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Achieving Exact Cluster Recovery Threshold via Semidefinite Programming: Extensions
Hajek, Bruce, Wu, Yihong, Xu, Jiaming
Resolving a conjecture of Abbe, Bandeira and Hall, the authors have recently shown that the semidefinite programming (SDP) relaxation of the maximum likelihood estimator achieves the sharp threshold for exactly recovering the community structure under the binary stochastic block model of two equal-sized clusters. The same was shown for the case of a single cluster and outliers. Extending the proof techniques, in this paper it is shown that SDP relaxations also achieve the sharp recovery threshold in the following cases: (1) Binary stochastic block model with two clusters of sizes proportional to network size but not necessarily equal; (2) Stochastic block model with a fixed number of equal-sized clusters; (3) Binary censored block model with the background graph being Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi. Furthermore, a sufficient condition is given for an SDP procedure to achieve exact recovery for the general case of a fixed number of clusters plus outliers. These results demonstrate the versatility of SDP relaxation as a simple, general purpose, computationally feasible methodology for community detection.
Local Canonical Correlation Analysis for Nonlinear Common Variables Discovery
HE need to study and analyze complex systems arises in many fields. Nowadays, in more and more applications and devices, many sensors are used to collect and to record multiple channels of data, a fact that increases the amount of information available to analyze the state of the system of interest. In such cases, it is typically insufficient to study each channel separately. Yet, the ability to gain a deep understanding of the true state of the system from the overwhelming amount of collected data from multiple (usually different) sources of information is challenging; it calls for the development of new technologies and novel ways to observe the system of interest and to fuse the available information [1]. For example, the study of human physiology in many fields of medicine is performed by simultaneously monitoring various medical features through electroencephalography (EEG) signals, electrocardiography (ECG) signals, respiratory signals, etc. Each type of measurement carries different and specific information, while our purpose is to systematically discover an accurate description of the state of the patient/person. A commonly-used method that has the ability to reveal correlations between multiple different sets, which often furthers our understanding of the system, is the Canonical Correlation Analysis (CCA) [2]-[4]. CCA is a well known and studied algorithm, where linear projections maximizing the correlation between the two data sets are constructed.
Dissociation and Propagation for Approximate Lifted Inference with Standard Relational Database Management Systems
Gatterbauer, Wolfgang, Suciu, Dan
Probabilistic inference over large data sets is a challenging data management problem since exact inference is generally #P-hard and is most often solved approximately with sampling-based methods today. This paper proposes an alternative approach for approximate evaluation of conjunctive queries with standard relational databases: In our approach, every query is evaluated entirely in the database engine by evaluating a fixed number of query plans, each providing an upper bound on the true probability, then taking their minimum. We provide an algorithm that takes into account important schema information to enumerate only the minimal necessary plans among all possible plans. Importantly, this algorithm is a strict generalization of all known PTIME self-join-free conjunctive queries: A query is in PTIME if and only if our algorithm returns one single plan. Furthermore, our approach is a generalization of a family of efficient ranking methods from graphs to hypergraphs. We also adapt three relational query optimization techniques to evaluate all necessary plans very fast. We give a detailed experimental evaluation of our approach and, in the process, provide a new way of thinking about the value of probabilistic methods over non-probabilistic methods for ranking query answers. We also note that the techniques developed in this paper apply immediately to lifted inference from statistical relational models since lifted inference corresponds to PTIME plans in probabilistic databases.
Apple Is Opening Up Its Technology at Just the Right Time
"I think you will see us open up more in the future," Apple CEO Tim Cook said the AllThingsD D11 conference in 2013. Now, roughly three years later, we have the clearest picture yet of what a more open Apple looks like. During its Worldwide Developers Conference on June 13, Apple announced a slew of changes to some of its apps and services that allow them to work with third parties. Siri, iMessage, Apple Maps, and the Phone app are among the Apple services that developers will be able to tap into. This means iPhone owners will be able to do things like call an Uber through Siri, order food without leaving the Messages app, and make reservations in Apple Maps.
sjchoi86/Tensorflow-101
TensorFlow tutorials written in pyhton (of course) with Jupyter Notebook. Tried to explain as kindly as possible, as these tutorials are intended for TensorFlow beginners. Hope these tutorials to be a useful recipe book for your deep learning projects. Most of the codes are simple refactorings of Aymeric Damien's Tutorial or Nathan Lintz's Tutorial. There could be missing credits.
Apple WWDC 2016: Phone stock apps will finally be allowed to be deleted with iOS 10
Nasa has announced that it has found evidence of flowing water on Mars. Scientists have long speculated that Recurring Slope Lineae -- or dark patches -- on Mars were made up of briny water but the new findings prove that those patches are caused by liquid water, which it has established by finding hydrated salts. Several hundred camped outside the London store in Covent Garden. The 6s will have new features like a vastly improved camera and a pressure-sensitive "3D Touch" display
The Unseen
Once a year, when Slava Epstein was growing up in Moscow, his mother took him to the Exhibition of the Achievements of the National Economy, a showcase for the wonders of Soviet life. The expo featured many things--from industrial harvesters to Uzbek wine--but Epstein, who began going in the nineteen-sixties, when he was eight or nine, was interested primarily in one: the Cosmos Pavilion, a building the size of a hangar, with a ceiling shaped like a giant inverted parabola. Space fever was running high in the city. Since 1961, when Yuri Gagarin orbited the globe, unmanned vessels had been launched toward Mars and Venus. Beside the expo's entrance, the towering Monument to the Conquerors of Space depicted a probe swooping up to the heavens. The Pavilion displayed futuristic technology--Vostok rockets and Soyuz orbiters--but Epstein was less interested in the glories of advanced thruster design than in the glories of space. He wanted to devote himself to astronomy. When a textbook that he found on the topic began with algebraic formulas, he prodded his older brother to explain them. During high school, he enrolled in classes in physics and math at Moscow State University. His parents disapproved of his desired career: because he is half Jewish, Epstein would face harsh Soviet quotas limiting Jews in the study of physics, a field deemed relevant to national security. But after his first lecture the professor invited him for a walk, and affirmed what they had been saying all along. "Don't do it," he warned. Soviet Russia may have been a fatalist's paradise, but from a young age Epstein felt that he was hardwired for optimism. He convinced himself that what is truly important in science is the ability to connect ideas, no matter the field, and so he took up biology. Rather than telescopes, he would use microscopes, which he began taking with him on trips to the White Sea, near the Arctic Circle, to study protozoa along the shore--research that could be conducted with minimal state interference. Over time, he grew interested in even smaller, more ancient forms of life: bacteria. Studying microbes inevitably causes a reordering of one's perceptions: for more than two billion years, they were the only life on this planet, and they remain in many ways its dominant life form. To a remarkable extent, the microbial cosmos was less explored than the actual cosmos: precisely how the organisms evolve, replicate, fight, and communicate remains unclear. Nearly all of microbiology, Epstein eventually learned, was built on the study of a tiny fraction of microbial life, perhaps less than one per cent, because most bacteria could not be grown in a laboratory culture, the primary means of analyzing them. By the time he matured as a scientist, many researchers had given up trying to cultivate new species, writing off the majority as "dark matter"--a term used in astronomy for an inscrutable substance that may make up most of the universe but cannot be seen.
iOS 10 is here: iMessage on emoji-steroids and the most third-party integrations ever
Aptly enough, iOS 10 has 10 major features, including sweeping new upgrades to Messages, a much more intelligent Siri, and a Memories feature in Photos that recognizes objects, people, and even locations. Introduced on Monday during WWDC, iOS 10 also makes the iPhone sublimely integrated with third-party apps. Developers can now design apps to directly enhance Messages, Siri, Maps, and Notifications. Apple's most noticeable update comes to Messages, which the company said is the most frequently used app on iOS. In addition to opening up the iMessage platform to third-party developers, Messages in iOS 10 has gone through a major "emojification."
Apple reveals iOS 10, including redesigned Messages and Apple Music apps, with updates to macOS and Watch
Nasa has announced that it has found evidence of flowing water on Mars. Scientists have long speculated that Recurring Slope Lineae -- or dark patches -- on Mars were made up of briny water but the new findings prove that those patches are caused by liquid water, which it has established by finding hydrated salts. Several hundred camped outside the London store in Covent Garden. The 6s will have new features like a vastly improved camera and a pressure-sensitive "3D Touch" display
Birds' minds contain more neurons than some monkeys
'We found birds, especially songbirds and parrots, have surprisingly large numbers of neurons in their pallium, the part of the brain that corresponds to the cerebral cortex, which supports higher cognition function such as planning for the future or finding patterns,' said Professor Herculano-Houzel. 'That explains why they exhibit levels of cognition at least as complex as primates.' The connection between intelligence and neuron count has not been firmly established, but the experts say avian brains could provide birds with a much higher cognitive power than mammals. The study has also demonstrated that there is more than one way to build a larger brain. Previously, it had been thought as brains grew larger neurons had to grow bigger as well because they had to connect over longer distances.